"Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing."

“Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.”

“As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.”

Source : "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

“I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.”

Source : "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

“I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.”

“Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.”

Source : John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23

“Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.”

“There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.”

“Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.”